Election Results
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
1st British Columbia general election, 1871 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Independent |
George Coxon 1 |
29 |
16.96% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
William H. Kay |
8 |
4.68% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
Moses Lumby |
17 |
9.94% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
James Robinson |
35 |
20.47% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
Charles Augustus Semlin |
29 |
16.96% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
Robert Smith |
53 |
30.99% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
171 |
100.00% |
|
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
|
1 |
2nd British Columbia general election, 1875 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Reform |
John F. Allison |
100 |
15.82% |
|
unknown |
|
Reform caucus |
John Andrew Mara |
130 |
20.57% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent/Government |
James Robinson |
59 |
9.34% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
James Ross |
7 |
1.1% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent/Government |
Charles Augustus Semlin |
94 |
14.87% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent/Government |
Robert Smith |
117 |
18.57% |
|
unknown |
|
Reform caucus |
Forbes George Vernon |
125 |
19.78% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
632 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
3rd British Columbia general election, 1878 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Government |
Preston Bennett |
158 |
20.05% |
|
unknown |
|
Opposition |
Dixon Joseph Lauder |
87 |
11.04% |
|
unknown |
|
Opposition |
William McCormack |
93 |
11.80% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
John Andrew Mara |
172 |
21.83% |
|
unknown |
|
Opposition |
Charles Augustus Semlin |
120 |
15.23% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
Forbes George Vernon |
158 |
20.05% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
788 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
4th British Columbia general election, 1882 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Government |
Preston Bennett |
194 |
19.56% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
Henry Dodson Green-Armytage |
98 |
9.88% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
William McGirr |
60 |
6.05% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
John Andrew Mara |
240 |
24.19% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
Edward Peason |
78 |
7.86% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
Charles Augustus Semlin |
254 |
25.60% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
Gilbert Malcolm Sproat |
68 |
6.86% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
992 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
British Columbia By-election: Yale November 15, 1882 2 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Government |
Thomas Basil Humphreys |
157 |
39.15% |
|
unknown |
|
Opposition |
George Bohun Martin |
244 |
60.05% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
401 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
2 |
5th British Columbia general election, 1886 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Government |
Archibald Irwin |
196 |
14.91% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
George Bohun Martin |
283 |
21.54% |
|
unknown |
|
(Opposition ?) |
Henry Nicholson |
93 |
7.08% |
|
unknown |
|
(Opposition ?) |
Thomas Roadley |
88 |
6.77% |
|
unknown |
|
Opposition |
Charles Augustus Semlin |
364 |
27.70% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
Forbes George Vernon |
290 |
22.07% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,314 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
6th British Columbia general election, 1890 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Opposition |
Irwin Archibald |
256 |
13.17% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
George Bohun Martin |
445 |
22.89% |
|
unknown |
|
Opposition |
Charles Augustus Semlin |
396 |
20.37% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
Forbes George Vernon |
496 |
25.51% |
|
unknown |
|
Government |
James Wardle |
351 |
18.06% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,944 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
7th British Columbia general election, 1894
split to three ridings:
- Yale-East
- Yale-West
- Yale-North
8th British Columbia general election, 1898
- Yale-East
- Yale-West
- Yale-North
9th British Columbia general election, 1900
- Yale-East
- Yale-West
- Yale-North
10th British Columbia general election, 1903 4 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Stuart Alexander Henderson |
309 |
60.59% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Thomas Gray McManamon |
201 |
39.41% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
510 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
4Restored seat reduced to one member only; successor to Yale-West |
11th British Columbia general election, 1907 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Stuart Alexander Henderson |
289 |
58.27% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Charles Augustus Semlin |
207 |
41.73% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
496 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
12th British Columbia general election, 1909 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
Stuart Richard Henderson |
265 |
36.81% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Richard McBride |
455 |
63.19% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
720 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
13th British Columbia general election, 1912 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Conservative |
Alexander Lucas |
524 |
65.26% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
John P. McConnell |
279 |
34.74% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
281 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
71.98% |
|
|
14th British Columbia general election, 1916 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Conservative |
Alexander Lucas |
609 |
42.95% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Joseph Walters |
809 |
57.05% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,418 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
15th British Columbia general election, 1920 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
James Robert Cameron |
737 |
31.95% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
John McRae |
913 |
39.58% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent Liberal |
Joseph Walters |
657 |
28.48% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
2,307 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
16th British Columbia general election, 1924 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Provincial Party |
James Sugrue Fagan |
578 |
23.20% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
John Duncan MacLean |
1,148 |
46.09% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
John McRae |
756 |
30.71% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
2,491 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
|
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
17th British Columbia general election, 1928 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
John Joseph Alban Gillis |
1,514 |
57.22% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Romald Helmerow Helmer |
1,132 |
42.78% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
2,648 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
27 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
18th British Columbia general election, 1933 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
John Joseph Alban Gillis |
1,193 |
68.64% |
|
unknown |
|
Non-Partisan Independent Group |
Romald Helmerow Helmer |
312 |
17.95% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
John Wise Langley |
233 |
13.41% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,738 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
23 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
19th British Columbia general election, 1937 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
John Joseph Alban Gillis |
968 |
59.94% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
John Wise Langley |
422 |
26.13% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
John Wilson North |
225 |
13.93% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,615 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
40 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
20th British Columbia general election, 1941 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Conservative |
Alexander Rennie Ross Craig |
616 |
34.92% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
John Joseph Alban Gillis |
1,148 |
65.08% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,764 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
55 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
21st British Columbia general election, 1945 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
John Joseph Alban Gillis |
616 |
34.92% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Angus Hugh MacIsaac |
536 |
33.23% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
1,613 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
63 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
22nd British Columbia general election, 1949 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Coalition |
John Joseph Alban Gillis |
1,417 |
46.90% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Angus Hugh MacIsaac |
865 |
28.83% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
Hugh MacIsaac |
728 |
24.27% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
3,000 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
42 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
23rd British Columbia election, 19522 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes
|
% |
Votes
|
% |
±% |
|
Progressive Conservative |
Bernard (Ben) Cherry |
338 |
10.74% |
- |
-% |
|
unknown |
|
BC Social Credit League |
Irvine Finlay Corbett |
1,024 |
32.53% |
1,390 |
51.46% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
John Joseph Allan Gillis |
1,067 |
33.89% |
1,311 |
48.54% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Angus Hugh MacIsaac |
659 |
20.93% |
- |
-% |
|
unknown |
|
Independent |
George Murray |
60 |
1.91% |
- |
-% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
3,148 |
% |
2,701 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
98 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
2 Preferential ballot - final count is between top two candidates from earlier counts; intermediary counts (of 4) not shown. |
24th British Columbia election, 1953 3 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes
|
% |
Votes
|
% |
±% |
|
Social Credit |
Irvine Finlay Corbett |
1,177 |
39.86% |
1,354 |
54.36% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
Evan Donald MacDougall |
835 |
28.28% |
- |
- % |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
2,953 |
100.00% |
2,491 |
% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
278 |
|
|
|
|
Total Registered Voters |
5,933 (1952 list) |
|
|
|
|
Turnout |
70.15% |
|
|
|
|
3 Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 3) not shown |
25th British Columbia general election, 1956 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Social Credit |
Irvine Finlay Corbett |
1,315 |
47.34 |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Joe Madden |
599 |
21.56% |
|
unknown |
|
Liberal |
Olga McLean |
703 |
25.31% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
Kenneth Moyes |
161 |
5.80% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
2,778 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
61 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
26th British Columbia general election, 1960 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
John Allan Collett |
964 |
27.30% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit |
Irvine Finlay Corbett |
1,103 |
31.24% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
William Joseph Lauder |
390 |
11.05% |
|
unknown |
|
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. |
Evan Donald MacDougall |
1,074 |
30.42% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
3,531 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
107 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
27th British Columbia general election, 1963 |
Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
Expenditures |
|
Liberal |
John Allan Collett |
599 |
13.10% |
|
unknown |
|
Social Credit |
Irvine Finlay Corbett |
1,691 |
36.99% |
|
unknown |
|
Conservative |
John Willison Green |
584 |
12.78% |
|
unknown |
|
New Democrat |
William Leonard Hartley |
1,697 |
37.43% |
|
unknown |
Total valid votes |
4,571 |
100.00% |
|
Total rejected ballots |
58 |
|
|
Turnout |
% |
|
|
Before the 28th general election in 1966, parts of the former riding of Yale became incorporated into the new riding of Yale-Lillooet, which survives to the present.